Event

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Czech Writers Under Siege
and Czech Literary History.

A lecture by Prof. Jiri Holy, DrSc
April 7, Wednesday, 6:30 PM

In his lecture "Czech Writers Under Siege and Czech Literary History,"
Professor Holý will reflect on several problematic areas in recent Czech
history-literary and otherwise-which he was forced to confront while
writing his book
for English-speaking readers.

Jiří Holý, professor at the Institute for Czech Literature and Literary
Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, is
one of the world's leading experts on Czech literature of the twentieth
century.